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Radical Numerics creates first AI-generated phages to reach human patient with Omnii-1
Radical Numerics describes how its multimodal genome language model Omnii-1 generated viable bacteriophages, prioritized variants and predicted phage-host interactions, and how Omnii-1-designed phages were administered to a patient with a resistant E. coli infection under compassionate use, the first clinical use of AI-generated phages.
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PopVax founder Soham Sankaran announces that its broadly protective COVID-19 vaccine candidate PVX-001 entered a first-in-human Phase I trial in Melbourne, with 14 participants dosed and no serious adverse events as of 6 October 2026, and describes the company's full-stack approach from computational protein design to in-house mRNA manufacturing.
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Can New Technologies Finally Replace Animal Testing?
Brandon Keim reports for IEEE Spectrum on new approach methodologies such as organ-on-a-chip devices, stem-cell-derived tissues, organoids and AI models that aim to replace animal testing in drug development, how researchers are proving they work, and the regulatory and cultural shifts needed for wider adoption.
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